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Are Hope and Change tainted before Obama is even sworn in?

Is that scandal stalking Barack Obama before he is even sworn in? Senate seats for sale in Illinois; a federal grand jury investigating political donations to his choice for commerce secretary… Is he already tarnished? Hardly.
First, there is nothing scandalous … Continue reading

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It was closer than you think

So that was a decent night for the Democrats. Sort of. I know, I know, Barack Obama “will electrify the world.”
He’s a “supernova.” Of course now the press are also saying he faces difficult challenges and is something of an … Continue reading

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I’m not afraid of Barack Obama

At the risk of stirring controversy I’d like to declare that Barack Obama would probably make an OK president.
To his supporters this will sound outrageously tepid. Whereas many conservatives are passionately convinced the rookie Senator from Illinois is … Continue reading

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Expecting too much from Obama

Barack Obama has done the right thing in the right way by dumping America-hating Rev. Jeremiah Wright. True, he did it at the wrong time, but in politics you take what you can get.
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